After Alex left the house, Ethan did not ask to see Lita.
First, it was because the marriage certificate was locked in the safe by Alex. He lacked the most important evidence to explain to Lita. Then, he had a strong sense of inferiority. He didn't want to show his ruined face to Lita.
Of course, Lita was sad, but she could do nothing about it.
Ethan didn't eat much for breakfast, and Alice had been sighing. Lita learned from Alice that Ethan and Alex had a quarrel yesterday.
Alex walked into the house with the morning sunlight the next day. He looked obviously angry. He threw his suit to the sofa and pulled his tie loose agitated.
Lita saw the bloodstains on Alex's white shirt at first glance. Most of them had dried and turned into dark brown color. A few of them were of red color, which should be fresh blood.
Was he injured? Lita instinctively wanted to go forward to ask him, but at the moment she was about to take the first step, she calmed down.
She shouldn't be entangled with this man anymore, she thought. She should keep her distance from him. There should be proper formality between them. She had to make sure that she would never cross the line again, even if it was just one step.
"Ah, Mr. Alex, there is blood on your shirt. Are you injured? Is it serious?" When Alice saw Alex, she immediately rushed over anxiously and asked with deep concern.
In fact, the blood on Alex's shirt wasn't his own, but Yen. He spent a whole night interrogating her but he couldn't get any information from her mouth about the mastermind of the scheme.
"Mrs. Selmy, come, come here to help Mr. Alex cut off his shirt. He got injured." Alice cried out in panic to Lita who was standing aside quietly.
Lita did not move. After a long while, she said coldly, "Alice, go to ask Harry for help. I don't have time."
After throwing these harsh words, she turned and walked to the guest room without looking back. Although she was extremely worried about him, she put on a cold and indifferent look.
Looking at Lita's back, Alice was stunned and muttered to herself, 'What's wrong with Mrs. Selmy? Her husband is injured, and she wouldn't give a hand to treat his injury, but just left without even taking a glance at him."
Alex fixed his eyes on her cold back too. Yesterday, this woman had enjoyed so much under his body, but now she was colder than a stranger.
'Are all women so heartless? And Yen is one hundred times more vicious than she is!"
"Harry, come and see Mr. Alex. He is injured." Alice called out to the direction of the study as Lita wouldn't help.
"Alice, I'm fine. The blood is not mine. I'll go take a shower and wash it off," said Alex, as he stood up and walked toward the master bedroom on the second floor.
For the whole day, Lita wouldn't step to the second floor, not to mention to ask Aisen how he was. She behaved as if Alex was a total stranger that had nothing to do with her at all. To be exact, she treated him colder than a stranger.
Lying on the bed that still had the remained air of a wedding, Alex frowned and thought, "How cruel can women be?"
Like Yen, she seduced Ethan intentionally, and then tried to kill him viciously. On the contrary, even if Ethan died, he would die bearing no grudge to her.
Alex couldn't understand. How broad- minded a man should be to miss a woman who tried to kill him by an extremely cruel means?
But Ethan was such a person! Now he was dying, and he still didn't allow Alex bring Yen to justice. Moreover, he kept covering up the crime she committed for her.
With hatred in his mind, he had a troubled sleep tangled with nightmares. He reached out his hand instinctively for the woman he wanted to hold in his arms, but couldn't find her.
He got up irritated.
At the big dining table downstairs, Lita was having a simple dinner alone.
To be more exactly, she wasn't eating. She just sat there still staring at the food. Only when she heard the vigorous footsteps coming from behind, did she send the food to her mouth with effort. The food tasted like cotton in her mouth but she pretended that she was enjoying it.
Alex sat down by her side. He was dissatisfied with her as she treated him as invisible. "I want to eat noodles. Go make some for me."
Again, he was giving order to her as a lord. "I know that you're noble, but your language need to be a little bit more polite to match your identity,"
said Lita and raised her head. Her eyes met his and instantly she felt she was staring into the vast deep ocean. She was dragged into a bottomless and mysterious whirlpool.
Her heart skipped a beat again!
'Why can't I restrain myself from talking with him? Can't I just take him as invisible?"
"Was I noble enough yesterday morning?" Alex curved his thin lips into a flirty smile.
His words made her heart thumping heavily and she could hardly keep her composure.
She bit her lip and kept silent. Of course, she would not go to make Italian noodles for this rude man.
Alex didn't get angry at her refusing to cook for him. He said lightly, "You don't have to pull a long face if you won't cook for me. It's your duty to serve me. If you have time, read some books to learn more traditional women virtues."
Lita was speechless. She really didn't want to waste her breath with him.
What was more outrageous was that the man suddenly leaned over, took the bowl of sticky rice porridge from her, and started to wolf it down.
Alex rarely ate porridge. He didn't like it because it was too light for him. But surprisingly he grabbed it from her and seemed to enjoy it very much.
"The noble master of Selmy family is eating something I ate a half? What's wrong with him?" Lita couldn't help ridiculing him.
Alex raised his thick eyebrows and said with a faint smile, "I've eaten your saliva, let alone the porridge you have eaten a half?"
"..." She was made speechless again.
The ring of Alex's cell phone spared Lita's embarrassment. She stood up to leave, as she had decided not to continue listening his unreasonable remarks, but his conversation on the phone made her pause.
"Alex, the woman wouldn't eat anything. She hasn't drunk a drop of water for a whole day," Zen reported on the other side of the phone. He was almost driven crazy by Yen.
"If she doesn't want to eat, then let her starve! Do you think I would beg her to eat?"
Alex replied coldly. He seemed to have no idea what to do with Yen. After all, she was the woman Ethan loved with all his life.
"Will she die if she doesn't eat or drink anything for a whole day?" Zen asked uncertainly.
"If she's dead, and you can't be alive either!" Alex shouted.
With a click, the innocent mobile phone was thrown on the table heavily. Alex's handsome face was gloomy and scary.
After a short pause, Alex quickly drank up the porridge in the bowl and walked away.
Watching Alex's tall figure disappear, Lita's heart slowly calmed down.
"Mrs. Selmy, did Mr. Alex leave again? I just made some noodles for him." Seeing Alex leave, Ann let out a long sigh.
When Alice saw that Lita's porridge had been eaten by Alex, she turned around and walked to the kitchen. "Mrs. Selmy, I'll get you a new bowl."
"No, thank you, Alice. I'll just use this bowl." Lita took the bowl that Alex had just used and got some porridge from the pot, and then sat down to eat.
Lita didn't have a fetish about cleanliness, so of course, she wouldn't mind that Alex had just eaten from that bowl. But...she just felt that her own behavior was inexplicable even to herself.
In the underground warehouse of the GK Group, Yen was lying weakly on a simple hard bed.
A pretty woman at her most precious age was a feast to the eye. Besides, she was an exceedingly beautiful lady.
"Alex, the doctor just checked her and gave her an injection! He said that if she still wouldn't eat anything by tomorrow, she should be put on to an IV drip."
Zen was always kind to pretty women. What's more, Yvonne was not just a common pretty woman.
"Then go ahead put on an IV drip for her, as long as you can keep her alive!" said Alex sneering.
"Alex, this girl is very stubborn. I guess she must have made up her mind not to tell us. Using force on her is useless. Why don't we try the soft way?" Zen suggested.
"Soft way? What is the soft way? Beg her?" Alex asked mockingly.
"Obviously, she...she likes you very much. Can you try to be nice to her..." Zen couldn't bear to see such an innocent little girl being violently tortured by Alex.
Yen was lying there with her exposed creamy skin and stunning curve that would stir up the desire of any man. She showed herself unreservedly in front of Alex and Zen.
It was just that the red marks caused by tight grip of the iron chain were really shocking.
"Be nice to her? You know very well that this woman snared my brother and almost killed him just four months ago. And you said I should be nice to her?" Alex said angrily in a low voice.
Zen went silent. He didn't know how to persuade Alex. He just felt that it was cruel to torture a weak lady who was unable to resist.
"From now on, for trivial problems like she wouldn't eat, you have to find ways to solve them yourself. If she wouldn't eat, just use nasal feeding! Just to keep her alive. Call me when she wakes up." Alex glared at Yen in the bed coldly and turned and left.
At the Selmy House.
Alex stood still by the window. His slender and straight figure stood there straight like a javelin. He was holding a cigarette between his slender fingers and sent it to his lips once after a while regularly. His profile was surrounded by the cloud of smoke and looked melancholy.
"Mrs. Selmy, Mr. Aiden just ate half a bowl of porridge for dinner. Please take this bowl of noodles to him." Alice brought a plate of Italian noodles to Lita and signaled her to take it to Alex who was standing by the window.
"He'll come to eat on his own if he's hungry!"
Lita responded indifferently. She didn't take the plate of hot noodles from Alice's hands, let alone send it to Alex.
She turned around coldly and walked to the guest room.
The moment when Lita turned around, her heart ached.
She felt at a loss. 'What's the meaning of my existence in Selmy family?'
She thought of divorcing Ethan...